Originally posted by: Clochette
You're absolutely right about comic books/graphic novels...my private library has more than hundred (mainly francophone authors/cartoonists).
Herge, Uderzo, and Goscinny? Those are the only ones I know.
Originally posted by: Clochette
My interest in book subjects is 'all over the place' - from 'light' fiction to 'high' literature. And I have kind of times with a preference for a genre (at the moment it's for thrillers/crime novels like Michael Connelly, Michael Robotham, Elzabeth George, Val McDermid, Harlan Coben, Donna Leon, Scott Turow, Stieg Larsson ...(the nordic ones I read in German, the other ones in English). It's my second period...as a youngster I had read the crime novels from many authors of my mother's time like Patricia Highsmith, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Chandler, Upfield, P-D- James, Rex Stout...oh so, so many different writers (impossible to name all whose stories' world I adore(d) to enter again and again)...
I am a sucker for teen lit. Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Becky Albertalli, Malinda Lo and the classic teenage YA series like Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Narnia, Divergent, etc.
I do like thrillers as well. I've devoured Gillian Flynn's books and Stieg Larsson. I liked Devil in the White CIty (and was thoroughly creeped by it) and have meant to read more Erik Larson.
I couldn't complete 50 shades beyond a few chapters and hate read Twilight series. While I will read YA romance, I cannot stand grown-up romances. Mills and Boon, nope. Even Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen are dull for me. The only way I semi-read Austen is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I couldn't read Gone with the Wind either and hate the movie with a passion.
I do like Sarah Waters Victorian romances and Jacqueline Carey's fantasy erotica. I guess.....regular romance is just too boringly heterosexual for me.
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